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Article: Howls over wolves' return; Many people welcomed the idea of wolves in the French Alps, but toshepherds it's a catastrophe.(World)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- November 1, 1999
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High on the sunlit uplands of the French Alps, amid juniper bushes and marmot burrows, a scattered flock of sheep graze peacefully on the last of the summer pasture under their shepherd's watchful eye.
Little do they know that lurking nearby is a pack of wolves. Nor that those wolves have propelled them into the center of an impassioned debate about whether man can ever live with his age-old enemy, canis lupus, in this wild and spectacular corner of Europe.
Philosophical reflection about man's place in nature is not foremost among Frederic Bues's priorities, though. A local sheep breeder, he lost 57 of his ewes last year to wolves, he says. As far as he ...